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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
AN OPERATIC WORKSHOP.
RICHARD STRAUSS, AND HIS LIBRETTIST.
RARE COLLABORATION.
Any person who is sincerely in- terested in an art must inevitably And pleasure in a glimpse, however flecting, into the workshop of no artist.
SATURDAY. "'JULY 14, 1928.
AMERICAN'S VIEWS
ON CHINA.
SECOND STAGE REACHED IN SUN YAT-SEN SCHEMES.
POSSIBILITIES GOOD.
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New York, June 30.-"China- appears to be entering the second stage in the programme «outlined by the late Sun Yat-sen, father of China's Nationalistic movement, and we may be witnessing the birth of a nation that will take ite place among the greatest and most powerful nations of the earth.”at
The letters exchanged between the composer
and author of "Elektra." "Rosenkavalier," ́ and This observation was made by many other operas ("Correspon-
Dr. Jeremiah W. Jenks, president dence between Richard Strauss Institute and expert on oriental of the: Alexander Hamilton and Hugo von Hofmansathal: affairs, who recently returned 1907-1018. Martin Secker, 15s.) from China. - *.
give us considerably more than There he met General "Chiang a glimpse into that particular | Kal-shek, and other Nationalist operatic workshop. It might leaders and learned first hand the rather be described as a series of China's great population political- plans they have for consolidating prolonged, scarcely interruptedly and uplifting it socially."
"Sun Yat-sen," he went on, "said the nationalistic movement would bring about its reform in 'three' stages,
views,
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For my part, I read the book, which has been compiled by Strauss's son, with unfligging in- terest from beginning to end. Not, I will admit, at once, because
The First-Military.
I am a wholehearted admirer of "Firat, a military reform, which either the composer or his libret-we hope is nearly ended. Second, tint, despite their obvious talents, a political one that would estab Nor, I submit. is it true to saylish a firm governmental control of their collaboration, as is said over all of China. Third, a social on the cover, that "nothing can be one, involving the elevation of the cited as resembling it except the common people economically as collaboration between Gilbert and well as politically, a gradual Sullivan." The contacts between development extending over the Verdi and Bolto in "Falstaff" and years." even between Verdi and Ghiolan- joni in. "Aida" were every bit as fruitful, even if they extended in fact over a leaser period of Line.
Neverthless, the interchange and clash of ideas shown here, al-
This brings up two questions of vital importance to America-just what form of government there, will be, and whether the U.S. is to recognize the Nationalists.
China has 375,000,000, people and untold potentialitics in wealth and power. Once civil strife ends, and government is stabilized, China's rise may rival thal of America itself.
Dr.
"As to the government, Jenks went on, it probably will take the same form as the regime which has held sway in the south
ways courteous and sympathetic, even when diametrically opposed, are In their way unique. Both Strauss and Hofmannsthal are so typlen" of their time. (which js, for most of us precisely our time), so essentially Edwardian, if I may thus summarise this characteris tic. Towards the end we glimpse the man. "Of course. we shall j of China the past decade. It will win," writos Strauss, who, as we be made up of a national congress know, hated every aspect of it, and of delegates from various dis then returns incontinently to the triels and provinces and overseas far more important problem of citizens, called to meet once a "Die Frau ohne Schatten."
year.
How Operns are Made.
Up to Committees,
One point emerges fairly clear. "At first, the delegates probably ly from these letters the pre- will be chosen through appoint- dilection of both nuthor and comment.. A central executive com- poser for "Ariadne." The world mittee of 36 members will meet han decided, apparently, that they every three month. It, in turn were wrong, but in the pasanges will name a political committee of referring to this particular 15 members, a standing committee Moliere-Hofmannathal-Strauss col- of the central executive committee Iaboration may be found some of of 9 members, and a military coun- the most. illuminating remarks eil of 16 members, 9 military and 7 about operatic problems in the non-military. whole book! The average reader,
"
"This committee form of govern- however, will doubtless be more ment already is functioning, A drawn to the letters that deal with meeting of the central executive the creation of "Elektra" and, committee WAS held late in above nil of Rosenkavalier," February and March. Tan Yon- which remains perhaps the most kni; the most influential man in the popular opera of the Twentieth Kuomintang, or Nationalist party, Century.
served as chairman of the meeting. This form of government is not Here Strauss's dramatic sense adapted to quick decisions and It shows it can hardly be denied, to remains to be seen if it will be the best possible advantage. Inefficient.
| the controversies between him and "During the military operations Hofmannsthal-and there were the committee has been disposed
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sure the supremacy of the civil the second.
authority over military.
A Step Toward Harmony.
"Placing Yen Hsi-shan'in charge at Peking augurs well for har- mony, and may prevent disputes from arising between Chiang Kai- alck and Feng Yo-hsiang."
Now I am aware that many people will find in these reygla. tions of how operas are made, dis- Illusion and shock. The public romantic always, likes to imagine the great artist wholly divorced from practical considerations, en- tirely at the mercy of inspiration,
Dr. Jenks was not prepared to his head in the clouds, his fect advise that the United States im- well off the ground,, Some great mediately recognize the Nation- artists, Wagner, notably, Beetaliat government, though he said hoven also in his latter years, that within a few weeks condi- have done their best to oblige the tions might make this step advia- public in this matter, but it can able and that for the first time we not be too strongly insisted that might be able to deal with authori they are the exception not thetics speaking in the name of all rule.
China. He said:
There
The Bacha, Handels, Mozarta, "Here is the situation: Haydns, Verdis of the world have has come into power a Nationalist been first and foremost craftsmen. group which holds nominal' and Their job was to satisfy a parti- monetary sway over all the old cular need of the time, and that China south of the Great Wall, need they satisfied. Being men of It already has shown confidence genius it often happened that in in its power, It advised United satisfying it they produced a work States Minister MacMurray that of genius, but they did not, so to American troops are speak, sit down in the morning, as needed at Peking and Tientsin. people nowadays seem to imagine, For the time, however, American
no longer
and say to themselves: "Now to. citizeris probably will feel safer if day we are going to write a great the troops are not withdrawn, symphony, or a great opern, of a great oratorio that is going to re- volutionise the art of music and confound the critics,"
Art and Craft,
It has always seemed to me fundamental weakness of contem- |porary music of all contemporary
"China cannot, of course, develop into a nation of mills and factories over night, but the pos Ribilities are there. The assis- tance of foreigners and foreign capital will be necessary for years to come."
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mocratic conditions. Indeed, the tion provides a very wholesome and dislike professional critics! pride in doing your job as well as corrective to popular sentiment-Theirs may not be a workshop of it can possibly be done, which is ality. What trouble they take to the very highest order, but it is the whole root of the matter, is got every detall right! How an uncommonly Interesting art for that matter that in prac public taste, in that the artist be- notoriously unfashionable now-curious, as in the case of so many and, not improbably, the best open tice the artist and the craftsman comes prone to moods and way adays. This state of mind, how artists, is their blend of contempt to contemporary inspection. No are so imperfectly blended. The wardness and the craftsman be-ever, will presumably not last for and reverence for public opinion, person to whom the problem of craftsman has rarely any art, and comes a mero artisan. Possibly ever.
that blind, Ignorant force, which, opera makes any appeal should Wherefore I think that the re-by, a curious paradox, la.the sole miss this opportunfly of being the artist too little craft. The any fusion of the two, like that gulf that divides them is danger. which obtained in the Eighteenth velation of the workings of the ultimate determinant of artistic shown round. By Francis Toye in ous to both alike, not to mention Century, is impossible under de-Strauss-Hofmannsthaft-combios-merit! How greatly they despite the Morning Post.
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